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'''Ricardo "Rick" Griffith''' (born 1969) is a British [[graphic designer]] and master [[Letterpress printing|letterpress]] [[Printmaking|printmaker]] of West Indian descent.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Compression Plates 1 - 10 from Seeking New Suprematist Forms Through Typography {{!}} Denver Art Museum |url=https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/object/2010.5.6 |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=www.denverartmuseum.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=David E. |title=The Big Book of Design Ideas |publisher=HBI |year=2000 |isbn=9780688179861 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Grace |date=September 17, 2020 |title=Field Notes Launches New Collection of Letterpress Notebooks Designed by Nine Printers Across the U.S. |url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/field-notes-united-states-of-letterpress/ |website=COLOSSAL}}</ref> One of Griffith's best-known contributions to letterpress printmaking is annotation, and his most famed work is the poster “Introductory Ethic for Designers.”<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Petit |first=Zachary |date=December 16, 2020 |title=Rick Griffith: The Art and Craft of the Second-Guess |url=https://www.printmag.com/post/rick-griffith-the-art-and-craft-of-the-second-guess |website=www.printmag.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Doorley |first=Scott |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Assembling_Tomorrow/PSvSEAAAQBAJ |title=Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future from the Stanford d.school |last2=Carter |first2=Carissa |last3= |first3= |date=2024-06-18 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-9848-5819-1 |pages=284 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Petit |first=Zachary |date=December 23, 2020 |title=Last-Minute Gifts for Designers: Rick Griffith's Words to Design (and Live) By |url=https://www.printmag.com/post/last-minute-gifts-for-designers-rick-griffith-s-words-to-design-and-live-by |website=www.printmag.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Exhibiting Denver-based Visual Artist, Rick Griffith |url=https://mcadenver.org/blog/interview-exhibiting-denver-based-visual-artist-rick-griffith |access-date=2024-06-26 |website=MCA Denver |language=en}}</ref> Griffith was [[Print (magazine)|PRINT Magazine]]'s first Artist-in-Residence.<ref name=":0" /> He owns and operates MATTER, <ref>{{Cite book|last=Cezzar|first=Juliette|title=The AIGA Guide to Careers in Graphic and Communication Design|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2018|isbn=9781501323676|pages=222, 147, 4, 7, 80, 79, 170, 78, 183, 221, 184|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://morematter.com/|title=MATTER – Denver's only design studio, manufactory, and design (book) shop}}</ref> a design studio, [[typography]] laboratory, and design bookstore, which
He is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA, where he was the City Commissioner for Public Art and Culture.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=MSU’s School of Art hosts national conference for AIGA design educators |url=http://www.montana.edu/news/16445/msu-s-school-of-art-hosts-national-conference-for-aiga-design-educators |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Montana State University |language=en-US}}</ref>
Griffith was born the UK, raised in Southeast London, and educated at Colfe’s College, [[Sidcup|Sidcup, United Kingdom]].<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":5" /> He immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s, and attended West Springfield High School, Fairfax County, VA.<ref name=":6" /> ▼
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▲Griffith was born the UK, raised in Southeast London, and educated at Colfe’s College, [[Sidcup|Sidcup, United Kingdom]].<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":5" /> He immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s, and attended West Springfield High School, Fairfax County, VA.<ref name=":6" />
Immersed in the Washington, DC, punk rock scene, Griffith worked in a record store.<ref name=":6" /> There, he first encountered [[Sound-on-Sound]], by the group Bill Nelson's Red Noise.<ref name=":6" /> Inspired by the font used on their album cover, Griffith found his way into graphic design.<ref name=":6" /> A freelance career on Madison Avenue funded his first practice, RGD (Rick Griffith Design), and he founded MATTER in [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], which, over the last two decades, has grown into a design consultancy, print shop, workshop<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lampoonmagazine.com/matter-denver-rick-griffith-debra-johnson/|title=Lampoon Magazine | MATTER, Denver}}</ref> and Denver's only black-owned<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.5280.com/2020/09/colorados-only-black-owned-bookstore-is-ready-for-the-revolution/|title=Shop at MATTER Is Colorado's Only Black-Owned Bookstore|date=September 22, 2020|website=5280}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/12/18/tattered-cover-new-owners-backlash/250784/|title=New Tattered Cover owners defend claims of Black ownership amid national outcry|date=December 18, 2020|website=The Know}}</ref> retail bookstore.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.westword.com/news/rick-griffith-has-designs-on-denver-bold-ones-5111186|title=Rick Griffith has designs on Denver. Bold ones.|first=Joel|last=Warner|date=January 4, 2011|website=Westword}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/07/31/independent-bookstores-denver/242589/|title=Looking for something to read? Here are eight independent bookstores in Denver to support|date=July 31, 2020|website=The Know}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/black-owned-bookstores-anti-racist-literature/|title=Demand for anti-racist literature is up. These black bookstore owners hope it lasts.|website=Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/black-owned-bookstores-work-to-keep-up-with-high-demand-on-black-history-anti-racism-books|title=Black-owned bookstores work to keep up with high demand on Black history, anti-racism books|date=July 15, 2020|website=KMGH}}</ref>▼
▲Immersed in the Washington, DC, punk rock scene, Griffith worked in a record store.<ref name=":6" /> There, he first encountered [[Sound-on-Sound]], by the group Bill Nelson's Red Noise.<ref name=":6" /> Inspired by the font used on their album cover, Griffith found his way into graphic design.<ref name=":6" /> A freelance career on Madison Avenue funded his first practice, RGD (Rick Griffith Design). With his partner,
== Residencies, exhibitions, and awards ==
Griffith's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the [[Denver Art Museum]], the [[Butler Library|Butler Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts]] at Columbia University, the [[Tweed Museum of Art]] at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, the Western New York Book Art Collaborative] (WNYBAC); and Columbia College's [[Columbia College Chicago|Center for the Book]] in Chicago,[[Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art]], and at [[American Institute of Graphic Arts|AIGA]] New York.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sherman |first=Nick |date=2010-06-20 |title=“Pressed” show and other typographic goings-on in Denver |url=http://woodtyper.com/1173 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Woodtyper}}</ref><ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 26, 2021 |title=Colorado in the Present Tense |url=https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/colorado-present-tense/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 23, 2012 |title=Rick Griffith: Genius MATTERs |url=https://303magazine.com/2012/07/rick-griffith-genius-matters/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-26 |title=Rick Griffith: |url=https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/rick-griffith |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=MCA Denver |language=en}}</ref>
Griffith has been a member of the [[American Institute of Graphic Arts]] since 1994 and served as president of the Colorado Chapter from 1995 to 1998, continuing to serve on their advisory board through 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Past Leadership | AIGA Colorado |url=https://colorado.aiga.org/about-us/past-boards/
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Griffith was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the [[The Art Institute of Colorado|Art Institute of Chicago]]; received the Denver One Club Award in 2017 and 2018; the [[Type Directors Club|Type Director's Club]] award in 2004, was included in [[HOW (magazine)|HOW Magazine]]'s International Posters edition in 2004, and received [[Print (magazine)|Print Magazine]] regional awards in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2009; was included in AIGA's 50 Books/50 Covers in 2004<ref>https://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/Rick%20Griffith/_/detail/relevance/asc/0/7/2530/seeking-new-suprematist-forms-through-typography/1 50 Books/50 Covers</ref>; and the Belmar Award for Achievement in Art and Design in 2004.
Griffith has lectured widely and worked as a visiting professor at a number of universities, such as University of Louisville Hite Art Institute, University of Southern California Roski School of Design, Montana State University, South Dakota State University, University of Texas, Austin, University of Minnesota, Duluth, and the [[Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Design Talk: Rick Griffith, Matter Studio at Cressman Center for Visual Arts |url=https://do502.com/events/2019/3/21/design-talk-rick-griffith-matter-studio |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Do502 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=News & Events |url=https://roski.usc.edu/news-events/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202013258/https://roski.usc.edu/news-events/ |archive-date=2024-02-02 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Roski School of Art and Design |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://woodtype.org/pages/exhibitions |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Hamilton Wood Type Museum |language=en}}</ref> He has served as an adjunct professor at the [[University of Denver]], [[University of Colorado Denver|University of Colorado]], Denver, and has been a visiting artist at the [[Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design]] and the [[Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague]], and the 2022-2023 [[Roy Acuff|Roy Acuf]]<nowiki/>f Chair of Excellence at [[Austin Peay State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Acuff Chair of Excellence |url=https://www.apsu.edu/ceca/chair.php |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=www.apsu.edu}}</ref>
▲Griffith has been a member of the [[American Institute of Graphic Arts]] since 1994 and served as president of the Colorado Chapter from 1995 to 1998,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://colorado.aiga.org/about-us/past-boards/|title=Past Leadership | AIGA Colorado}}</ref> continuing to serve on their advisory board through 2006. He served on the Denver City and County Cultural Commission from 2012 to 2016,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artsandvenuesdenver.com/scfd-tier-iii/denver-county-cultural-council|title=Denver County Cultural Council | Denver Arts & Venues|first=Denver Arts &|last=Venues|website=www.artsandvenuesdenver.com}}</ref> and on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Contemporary Art at the [[Denver Art Museum]]. He was inducted into the [[International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences]] in 2001 and presently serves as the Services Nominating Chair.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}
▲In 2021, Griffith chaired the national AIGA Design Conference, and will chair it again in 2022.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} He also has been a judge for the [[Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum]]'s [[National Design Awards]].<ref>Smithsonian Institution: Cooper Hewitt Announces 2022 National Design Award Winners. (2022, September 8). ''Targeted News Service (USA)''. Available from NewsBank: Access World News – Historical and Current.</ref>
▲== External Links ==
* [https://morematter.com MATTER] design studio, typography laboratory and design bookstore
* Griffith's Denver Museum of Contemporary Art [https://web.archive.org/web/20210421180234/https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/rick-griffith Exhibit]
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